The late night host rang the alarm on the current state of Afghanistan a year after the US withdrew troops, highlighting a ‘grim but important’ topic
John Oliver spoke about the “dire crisis” currently taking place inOn his HBO show Last Week Tonight, the host looked back on the events of 2021, referring to it as “complete mayhem” with surprise all round from inside and outside Afghanistan.Within days, the Afghan government was replaced by the Taliban, a devastating blow for the people.
Oliver started by talking about the Taliban’s brutal reprisals against US allies and the former Afghan government with nearly 500 people killed or forcibly disappeared within the first six months. “For an organisation so concerned with virtue and purity, taking months to brainstorm a schoolgirl uniform you like is objectively the single perviest thing you can do,” Oliver said.
Because of so many sanctioned individuals and wanted terrorists now being part of the government, the economy has taken a nosedive. Seventy-three per cent of the former budget came from aid and grants and all that aid disappeared almost immediately. Parents have been selling kidneys for money to feed families, “a desperate decision that you can make precisely once” and some have sold children to feed others, an “unimaginably heartbreaking” turn of events.
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